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> [America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population in order to take over the continent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/america-was-founded-on-a-genocide-on-the-unquestioned-assumption-of/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [“Two-sentence horror story: I woke up in a country founded on the genocide of native peoples and the enslavement of imported ones. I could not find my way back to sleep.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/miles-garrett/two-sentence-horror-story-i-woke-up-in-a-country-founded-on-the/)

[Miles Garrett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/miles-garrett/)

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